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They were quite wrong. But in another sense, so was he. Hesburgh had, in fact, lost touch with his campus, mainly because of his own voracious involvement with "relevant" social problems as a member of 23 off-campus boards and committees and as outspoken head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. A biting student joke asked: "What's the difference between God and Father Hesburgh? God is everywhere and Hesburgh is everywhere but Notre Dame...
...allow limited visits. Paradoxically, he pleased old grads by letting the football team play in postseason bowl games -but chiefly because the $200,000 income could be used to finance scholarships for blacks and Spanish-speaking students. In the past six months, he has shed five of his off-campus jobs. Last year the A.A.U.P. reconsidered and gave him that academic freedom award...
...course, at the same time Harvard is telling us we can't have pets in University housing, it is trying to tell us we cannot live off-campus. What then, Harvard, is the solution for a student who really wants to own a pet? Transfer. One high-ranking University official, a bit discouraged by the handling of the pet situation, said of the CHUL ruling, "It's like re-establishing the coat and tie rule...
...where the student association last summer hired the nation's first full-time lawyer for students. During his first six months, Jim Boyle, 26, a Texas law-school graduate, earned his modest pay ($12,500 a year) by helping more than 300 students who complained of gouging by off-campus merchants and landlords. Then two months ago, Boyle went to bat for the Gay Liberation Front, which had been denied recognition as a campus club...
Over a third of the total Harvard University student population-4020 persons-is now living off-campus. Landlords have recently developed a willingness to exclude family units by holding rents at levels which groups of students can afford to pay. While the national average for units of "unrelated individuals" living together is 18 per cent, in Cambridge 33.3 per cent of the housing is occupied by such groups...